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Kells (/ ˈ k ɛ l z /; Irish: Ceanannas) [a] is a town in County Meath, Ireland. The town lies off the M3 motorway , 16 km (10 mi) from Navan and 65 km (40 mi) from Dublin . Along with other towns in County Meath, it is within the commuter belt for Dublin, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and had a population of 6,608 as of the 2022 census . [ 2 ]
This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,634 townlands in County Meath, Ireland. [1] [2] ... Kells Meath Moor of: 90: Dunboyne: Dunboyne: Dunshaughlin Meenlagh ...
Kells was founded as a monastic settlement by Saint Columba c. 550 on land that had been gifted to him by the King of Tara - Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Columba was exiled after the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne (AD 561). The Abbey of Kells was re-founded in the early 9th century by monks from Iona. The high crosses were erected in the 9th/10th century ...
This is a list of towns and villages in County Meath, Ireland. A. Agher [1] Ashbourne [2] Athboy [2] B ... Kells [2] Kilcloon [2] Kildalkey [2] Kilmainhamwood [1 ...
Meath County Council is the local authority for the county. Meath is the 14th-largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by land area, and the 8th-most populous, with a total population of 220,826 according to the 2022 census. [2] The county town and largest settlement in Meath is Navan, located in the centre of the county along the River Boyne.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Kells, County Meath (1 C, 7 P) N. ... Trim, County Meath (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Towns and villages in County Meath"
The Abbey of Kells (Irish: Mainistir Cheanannais) or Kells Priory is a former monastery in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 59 kilometres (37 mi) north-west of Dublin.It was founded in the early 9th century, and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later medieval and early modern periods before finally leaving the abbey in the 1650s.
One of the former constituent parishes, Loghan or Loughan, is described by Samuel Lewis in his 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland as being: [8]. a parish, partly in the barony of Castlerahan, county of Cavan, and province of Ulster, but chiefly in the barony of Upper Kells, county of Meath, and province of Leinster, 4 miles (N. W.) from Kells, on the road from Dublin by Kells to ...